Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action

Grants to Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action

NEW YORK, NEW YORK —
Demos is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization founded in 2000. Demos works primarily to achieve a stronger democracy through reducing the role of money in politics making the system of voting more inclusive for all, and building pathways to a diverse, expanded middle class in a sustainable democracy. Miles Rapoport, Demos' president, served for ten years in the Connecticut legislatures prior to coming to Demos. This grant will provide general support with particular emphasis on its work on voting and on reducing the role of money in politics.

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